Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studied Latin for six years, but I did not know what the Latin words quoted in your article meant. . . . The chief fault in studying Latin is that it wastes valuable time which might be devoted to something worth while-if I had studied plumbing, for example, or welding, I might be able to do something which would fill a real need of my fellow citizens...
...really interested in the English of our young people, the foundation must be laid long before Latin can affect the situation. Let us look to the English of the elementary school teacher, radio, cinema, comics...
...kept in his back yard as a small boy, is now a specialist in herpetology. An editor, who says he "never went to school much," lists, among others, the following subjects he feels qualified to give an opinion on: dairying, entomology, the Society of Friends, gypsies, swine husbandry, Latin poetry...
...character and match, or better, the Mexican enthusiasm. The Protocol Division's patient, able Stanley Woodward was worried. He called on the Army, Navy, Marines, school officials, the Washington Board of Trade and even New York's master greeter, Grover Whalen, to plan a spectacle that Latin American and even Hollywood itself might whistle...
...famed dance band. He and Benny Goodman quit when Pollack bawled them out one night for coming to work in dirty shoes. After his wife left him in 1932 Jimmy went off to the Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing boom of the mid-'30s, he had a brief burst of glory with a band that included such jazz names as George Wettling, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Georg Brunis and Mel Powell...